British Prime Minister Keir Starmer says the UK is ready to help monitor the new ceasefire in Gaza and assist in decommissioning the weaponry of Hamas. He was speaking in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, where global leaders had gathered to witness the signing of the agreement.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi said a two-state solution is the “only way” to secure lasting peace for Israelis and Palestinians. He said Egypt would work with “all partners” to lay the foundation for the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip.
Jesy Nelson has shared adorable photos with her two baby girls as she issued a candid body positive post after giving birth. The former Little Mix singer, who had a difficult pregnancy, welcomed her twin babies in May.
Due to complications around their birth, Jesy, 34, and her girls were not allowed home until weeks later in June. She has since been sharing updates on her daughters Ocean Jade and Story Monroe, who she shares with her fiance Zion Foster.
Jesy delighted fans when she revealed her children had arrived “healthy and fighting strong” after arriving prematurely. Now, the singer has shared a series of black and white photos with her baby girls that were taken by proud dad Zion.
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She beamed as she held Ocean and Story in each arm as they both giggled away. Jesy wore a white bra and matching pants for the touching photoshoot as she also shared a powerful message to all other mums.
Alongside her post, Jesy candidly said: “I never thought it would have taken having two beautiful baby girls, that I could have potentially lost, to make me realise how incredible my body actually is.
“33 years of extreme diets, 33 years of putting myself down wishing my belly was flatter, wanting my waist just a little smaller and almost going through with a boob job, to now standing here having this photo taken.”
She added: “I can honestly say I’ve never felt prouder of my body and what it has been through! Yes my boobs hang lower and my belly is bigger and squishier – it doesnt look how it used to, but my god it created the best gift that has ever happened to me.
“I cannot wait to show my girls the first place they called home and the place where they defied all the odds. If there’s anything I’ve learned over the past 9 months of being pregnant, it’s that I never want my girls to feel the way I did about my body for so many years.
“So to all the future mummies or the mummies that have just given birth, if you’re struggling with how you are feeling in yourself or are maybe even feeling the pressure to “snap back” just take a moment to remember what YOU did! Be kinder to yourself and remember you are INCREDIBLE!!!”
Jesy was praised by her followers as Shaughna Phillips said: “Incredible woman, incredible mama.” Emily Clarkson added: “Perfection.” One fan commented: “Now THIS IS brilliant to read! Happy for you both Jesy!
“It’s been a while since our 1-1’s and this is a beautiful chapter for you all.” Another added: “This is such a lovely post and message. You look great and just look at your precious girls.”
Just last month, Jesy had even more to celebrate as she got engaged to Zion. Alongside a photo of them on a beach at sunset, Jesy wrote: “Just got engaged to my best friend”.
The singer then posted a close-up shot of her dazzling engagement ring. Jesy and Zion’s twin girls had twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome (TTS) – a rare condition that threatened their lives before they were born.
Identical twins share the same placenta in their mother’s womb, with some blood vessels joining the two together. Twins with TTS don’t have an equal flow of blood between the babies, which means that one baby can become anaemic and another can receive too much blood, leading to heart failure.
Jesy said she was in a “constant state of fear” due to the twins’ condition and later went into hospital for a procedure to burn the blood vessels that were causing uneven blood flow between the twins. She had to live in hospital for 10 weeks before the birth.
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The Tennessee Titans have sacked head coach Brian Callahan following a disappointing start to the NFL season.
The Titans are bottom of the standings in the Southern Division of the American Football Conference (AFC) after five defeats and a solitary victory.
They were beaten 20-10 by the Las Vegas Raiders on Sunday in what was 41-year-old Callahan’s final game at the helm.
Chad Brinker, the Titans’ president of football operations, said Callahan was a person of “great character” and “these decisions are never easy”.
“Our players, fans, and community deserve a football team that achieves a standard we are not currently meeting,” Brinker added.
“We are committed to making the hard decisions necessary to reach and maintain that standard.”
Joy turned to devastation for many after Israel added a twist to its release of almost 2,000 imprisoned Palestinians as part of the ceasefire deal. It’s sending 154 into exile, refusing to let them back into Gaza or the occupied West Bank.
Political leaders from around the world have convened in Egypt for a ceremony to sign a ceasefire deal in Gaza, led by United States President Donald Trump and mediating partners such as Egypt, Qatar, and Turkiye.
Speaking in the Egyptian seaside resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on Monday, Trump envisioned a glimmering future for Gaza as a hub of development and investment, even as the Gaza Strip lies in ruins following Israel’s devastating, two-year assault.
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“A new and beautiful day is rising and now the rebuilding begins,” said the US president, who praised regional leaders who helped broker a deal between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas.
“Rebuilding is maybe going to be the easiest part,” he added, stating that “we know how to build better than anybody in the world.”
The ceasefire deal has been greeted with a combination of relief and anxiety about the future in Gaza, where Israeli attacks killed at least 67,869 people, with thousands more likely buried beneath the rubble.
“There’s no place here for people to stay,” Al Jazeera correspondent Hani Mahmoud reported from Gaza.
He added that people returning to what remains of their homes have struggled to access basic necessities, including water.
“We drove by entire neighbourhoods that have been levelled to the ground,” Mahmoud said. “There is nothing left. There is nothing recognisable about many of the neighbourhoods that we knew.”
Despite the toll of Israel’s military campaign, which left most of the Strip unlivable and has been described as a genocide by a growing number of scholars and rights groups, the US president has framed discussions of Gaza’s future around Israeli security demands.
“Gaza’s reconstruction also requires that it be demilitarised,” Trump said in his remarks.
Leaders from the region such as Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi praised Trump at the summit, but warned that only the creation of a Palestinian state could offer a durable end to the conflict.
“Egypt reasserts along with its brotherly Arab and Muslim nations that peace remains our strategic choice, and that the experiences have shown over the past decades that this choice can only be established upon justice and equality in rights,” he said.
But progress towards that goal remains distant.
Israel has insisted that it will not allow the creation of a Palestinian state, and the US, which continued to assist Israel with massive arms transfers and diplomatic support during the conflict despite growing anger at the destruction of Gaza, has offered only vague comments about its vision of the Strip’s future.
The possible involvement of strongly pro-Israel figures, including former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, in the post-war governance of Gaza has also raised concerns.
“We’re seeing these global leaders gathering together, ensuring that they’re all aligned, that they want to end this conflict,” Zeidon Alkinani, a lecturer at Georgetown University in Qatar, told Al Jazeera.
“But how sustainable is the long-term future after this peace treaty? Are we ending all the issues that ended up accumulating to leading to the events of October 7 and everything that happened [after]? I think that’s the question we need to look at.”
Trump’s Gaza plan calls for a group of Palestinian policy experts to rule Gaza, but the local authorities would be supervised by a so-called “Board of Peace” headed by Trump and Blair.